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Glenn Beck Doesn’t Give A Toss About Prince William’s Engagement, Cares Much More About The TSA

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Glenn Beck really doesn’t care about Prince William’s engagement to Kate Middleton (or Prince Harry’s to Princess Leia, or Prince Jake to Princess Buttercup, or any of the other hilarious faux-mistakes he made during today’s program). However, after he was done his explaining just how little he does care about it, he explained that he does care about the media covering it instead of TSA’s new security measures. That he cares about a lot.

After his Prince William opening, which alone was more entertaining than a dozen George Soros specials, Beck gave a run down of all the TSA hoopla, comparing the pat downs to “a scene from a Danielle Steel novel,” and wondering why the media has avoided it in favor of flashy royals getting hitched. While Beck is certainly right that the amount of media attention following the engagement is ridiculous, it seems strange to imply that the media is overlooking the anger and paranoia surrounding the new airport regulations considering it’s been covered all over the placefor months. As to Beck’s assertions that this can all be connected back to Soros and his various plans to destabilize America, I’ll leave it up to you all to decide the veracity of that.

However, there was one other point on which Beck was 100% correct and it’s a point that hasn’t been said enough. The people delivering these pat downs and putting you through these scanners aren’t “the bad guys.” The security teams didn’t make these rules, they’re just the ones who are going to get screamed at all day about them.

Check out some clips from Fox News below. The first details Beck’s opinion on the royal engagement. The second is the meat and potatoes of his TSA complaints.

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  • Big_F-ing_Deal

    I’m sure Beck can sympathize with those who have their dick examined in public.

    After all, he has been a public dick under examination for a very long time.

  • The Lantern of Truth

    As a King , I do not understand Woody Woodbecker ‘s problem with we royals . We are required by law to drink Royal Crown Cola , have a crown air freshener on the back shelf of our rides and sing The Duke of Earl at family gatherings , so it is not an easy life , Mr . Goldbecker . I travel frequently and the good people of Greyhound never pat me down , due to my royal bearing .

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Beck is right, as usual. Journalists don’t seem interested in news unless it fits their template. Case in point:

    Networks Allow a Scant Four Minutes For Rangel Conviction, Devote 120 Minutes to Royal Wedding

    Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/11/17/networks-allow-scant-four-minutes-rangel-conviction-devote-120-minut#ixzz15aHE4p7w

    If Rangel were a Republican, how much time do you think would’ve been devoted to the story?

  • ProgLib

    Hear Ye, Hear Ye. Let it henceforth be known that I agree with Glenn Beck about something. About time he said something reasonable, the sooner the royals disappear the better. Though I disagree that media hasn’t paid enough attention to the TSA gate rape scandal.

  • Arthur (Not a Political Comic)

    I think Beck may have done what I’ve done when the Royal Wedding thing comes on the news and change the channel, so he may have missed out on the TSA reports. I know that I got most of my TSA junk handling news on the internet to avoid the royal wedding stuff. For the love of God, is this the only foreign news that anyone cares about?

  • Hawk11

    HOLY TEA AND CRUMPETS I AGREE WITH GLENN FRIGGIN BECK!!!!

    Thank goodness we now live in the age where we can pause live television and fast forward through commercials and bad news stories.

  • The Real Royal Queen

    The Lantern of Truth said:
    I travel frequently and the good people of Greyhound never pat me down , due to my royal bearing .

    I rather enjoy being pat down…and thrown down…hair pulled and spanked a little.

  • SarahP

    I know that there are some who think Beck is a con man and they are correct, he is a con man. My view is, who cares; his stuff is comedy gold and funnier than anything SNL could ever dream of.

  • Cancon2

    He’s right.

  • timcajun

    I need treatment, for I agree with Beck, tell me once about the Royals and I’m good, however he gets back on the spaceship again to say there has been little on the TSA reports. This story has aired over and over!

  • SarahP

    Cancon2 said:
    He’s right.

    Very funny. No, seriously, very funny.

  • jo hoochie

    I had rather listen to Beck than listen to all the B.S. that comes out of the white house or across the pond! As for TSA, Bring in retired army guys, trained army soliders back from the war with BIG guns and dogs, the way Israel handles it. And yes…….OMG…… I heard all about it on Becks show!! Thank God for Beck and Fox news!!!!!

  • Some_Dude

    Tea baggers don’t care ’bout world news! We want to hear bout Merka and Dancing With the Stars!

  • Cancon2

    SarahP said:
    Very funny. No, seriously, very funny.

    I give a shit.

  • Cecelia

    I don’t think anyone wishes to be “patted down” (without flowers and dinner, first), but the hullabaloo about this is getting idiotic.

    So you have some stranger, who has patted down hundreds of people that day, touch your more intimate areas. So there are some xray like shots of your physique.

    Move on.

  • Greg

    More interesting is his continued slander of Soros by way of his TSA analysis… A slander he continues even after his own website has refuted his argument…

  • Pablo

    Some_Dude said:
    Tea baggers don’t care ’bout world news! We want to hear bout Merka and Dancing With the Stars!

    And you want the balls in your mouth, yes?

  • Michéle – Ft Leavenworth KS

    So Beck used how much of his air time to point out that the media spent air time to discuss the future Prince William/Kate wedding. Come on, I agree it wasn’t news worthy but trying to rise above the fray put you in the same boat of those who made this their number one story.

    It is a wedding, many think of the Princess Di, nostalgia, sure it can be a waste of air time, but some might equate your shows as a waste of air time.

    Again, when you live in glass house ….

  • SmartAlec

    Some_Dude said:
    Tea baggers don’t care

    Since Juan is not here at the moment-

    Pedophile Some_Dude!!

  • SmartAlec

    Michéle - Ft Leavenworth KS said:
    Again, when you live in glass house ….

    Michele, it appears to be belief of most commentors here that you are in fact The Real Royal King. I wasn’t convinced at first, but now I agree. You almost had me fooled. Military wife, husband overseas, trying to sound reasonable and likeable. Some things are just hard to hide even on the internet.
    The jig is up.

  • SmartAlec

    strike commentors- insert commenters

  • Greg

    The Blaze spoke with a representative from gurufocus.com, the site referenced by Hemingway and Media Matters. According to the representative, Soros owned the OSIS stock at the end of the second quarter and sold it during the third quarter. That puts the sale sometime between July 1 and September 30. The representative said the site first updated the information yesterday, which explains the change in the amount of stock owned.- Update by Blaze staff.

    Did Glenn lie or is he too lazy to keep up with the events he comments on? Either way his dedication to advancing the cause of moronity continues unabated.

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Say it isn’t so Michele!?

  • George C

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Say it isn’t so Michele!?

    Oh , it’s true. Right Greg ? LOL

    Amputate a man’s leg and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me, King, when your little sockpuppet is on the slab, where will it tickle you .

  • Greg
  • Greg

    During Beck’s program Fox devotes about a minute each day to hard news headlines around 5:30. Yesterday, that was enough time during this segment to mention just three stories. The first was about tax cuts. The second was … Prince William & Kate Middleton. Only after covering William & Kate did Fox get around to mentioning that the Medal of Honor was granted that day to the first living recipient of that medal since the Vietnam War.- Media Matters

    Liar, scam artist and hypocrite all in one… Brave hero for the fringe.

  • Pablo
  • Pablo

    Greg said:
    Liar, scam artist and hypocrite all in one… Brave hero for the fringe.

    Wait, you think Beck writes the news break? Ummm…no.

  • Greg

    Pablo said:
    Weinerfacts for Beginners

    None of that refutes the infographic.

  • Greg

    Pablo said:
    Wait, you think Beck writes the news break? Ummm…no.

    That is most obviously not the point… His criticism of media should start at FOX… Yet it does not.

  • The Real Royal King

    Seeing 2012 From My Window said:
    Beck is right, as usual. Journalists don’t seem interested in news unless it fits their template. Case in point: Networks Allow a Scant Four Minutes For Rangel Conviction, Devote 120 Minutes to Royal Wedding Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/scott-whitlock/2010/11/17/networks-allow-scant-four-minutes-rangel-conviction-devote-120-minut#ixzz15aHE4p7w If Rangel were a Republican, how much time do you think would’ve been devoted to the story?

    Beckerhead is pushing around the same Kart ‘o Krap you are Michelle-in-Utah. The TSA story has been widely covered everyplace.

  • CanofSand

    Greg said:
    None of that refutes the infographic.

    His comment: 10:12 pm. Yours: 10:19 pm. I highly doubt you read even a fraction of the several pages of detailed… well, annihilation, really… of the absurd anti-Goldline/Beck arguments. Your “infographic” lists Weiner as a source, and the other sources also use Weiner’s absurd, thoroughly discredited report as one of their primary sources. Weiner cobbled together this anti-Goldline/Beck “scandal” out of whole cloth (a scandal which went nowhere, other than going to the heads of the most zombie-like Lefitsts, but I repeat myself). Only a fool would consider Weiner or a progressive blog a good source for objective information about Glenn Beck.

    Meanwhile, in the real world, Goldline has an A+ rating from Better Business Bureau; the BBB stood by this rating when this “scandal” erupted and continues to stand by it. Weiner’s response? He implies the BBB was bribed. The evidence? Goldline paid $350 for a standard package the BBB does with all sorts of businesses. A whole $350! Yeah… you’ve not really thought all this out, have you, zombie Lefties? (No surprise since “this makes my political enemies look bad!” is apparently about all the thought you ever put into these things.) They are a heck of a lot more trustworthy than any of the hyperpartisan Beck-haters you’ve got handing you your “facts” and talking points.

  • Greg

    CanofSand said:
    His comment: 10:12 pm. Yours: 10:19 pm. I highly doubt you read even a fraction of the several pages of detailed… well, annihilation, really… of the absurd anti-Goldline/Beck arguments. Your “infographic” lists Weiner as a source, and the other sources also use Weiner’s absurd, thoroughly discredited report as one of their primary sources. Weiner cobbled together this anti-Goldline/Beck “scandal” out of whole cloth (a scandal which went nowhere, other than going to the heads of the most zombie-like Lefitsts, but I repeat myself). Only a fool would consider Weiner or a progressive blog a good source for objective information about Glenn Beck.

    Meanwhile, in the real world, Goldline has an A+ rating from Better Business Bureau; the BBB stood by this rating when this “scandal” erupted and continues to stand by it. Weiner’s response? He implies the BBB was bribed. The evidence? Goldline paid $350 for a standard package the BBB does with all sorts of businesses. A whole $350! Yeah… you’ve not really thought all this out, have you, zombie Lefties? (No surprise since “this makes my political enemies look bad!” is apparently about all the thought you ever put into these things.) They are a heck of a lot more trustworthy than any of the hyperpartisan Beck-haters you’ve got handing you your “facts” and talking points.

    Yawn…a lot of blathering with no content…just like he link devoid of refutation (but complete with broken links) and outright admittance excused by disclaimer… I did read the site… Have been on it many times before… It says nothing but does console the deaf dumb and blind.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Every once in a while, Glenn Beck and I are on the same page. It’s appalling that Americans would give a dump about British Royalty and their love lives and EVEN WORSE that their engagement would be the lead story on the news this week. I thought that we fought a bitter war of independence from their monarchy.

    Question for Beck’s supporters: how often do you agree with anything that Keith Olbermann stands for?

  • Seeing 2012 From My Window

    Question for Beck’s supporters: how often do you agree with anything that Keith Olbermann stands for?

    If he’d take the meds the docs have prescribed for him, it could happen.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    Seeing 2012 From My Window says:
    “If he’d take the meds the docs have prescribed for him, it could happen.”

    First of all, you do know that Beck is on meds for some mental condition, right? That pointed out, your comment is a perfect example of the epistemic problematic that faces American citizens. I C & P what I’m writing elsewhere, a story about Beck’s absurd claims regarding an EU building under construction in France. Beck claims that it resembles the mythical Tower of Babel:

    We cannot have a reverse Tower of Babel, but we have the advice that J.S. Mill offered: the antidote to bad speech is more speech.

    What this has lead to with various media outlets is a virtual Tower of Babel situation where reactionaries speak a certain discourse that makes no sense to those of us who follow reality, and vice-verse. The reactionaries who get “informed” only by the self-contained, right-wing media sphere that R. Maddow elaborated upon, respond to comments I make on politically neutral boards with claims that I am lying. In their mind, my assertion that Beck lies is a lie. My assertion that Beck is a reactionary is a “lie,” because they think he’s a “conservative.” One example from Mediaite: gordonbloyershow says:”Murkowski is not smart enough to be a Senator. Lets not mince words, she is an idiot.” Bloyer calls me a liar all the time. It’s as if they live in an alternative universe to our universe or one side suffers from mass insanity. (They think we do and cite the political hack, Rossiter, to make that case: The Liberal Mind: The Psychological Causes of Political Madness.)

    For Maddow’s monologue, see:
    http://www.sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/201...

    So what is the role of “more speech” in an environment where ideologues are speaking a “different” political language? I believe, as I argued below, that we are in an information struggle for the hearts and minds of moderate, non-ideological voters.We have truth on our side, but we’re challenged with the liars on the far right like Gordon Bloyer and Glenn Beck making the same claim to having “truth” on their side.

    Both of us can scream, “you’re a liar” at each other, but that won’t cut it.

    I wish I had an easier solution to this information struggle than to engage in this struggle as effectively as possible, but that notion is naive. We, on the left, are in a struggle, and we will get creamed if we do not struggle against the lies that Beck, O’Reilly, Palin, Hannity, Gingrich and other right wingers tell.

    In this struggle, our best resource is Media Matters for America. They are very effective at exposing the liars on the right. Share THEIR URL if you think that I’m just promoting MY anti-Beck blog, but do not turn away from this information struggle. Beck wages this struggle day in and day out.

    http://mediamatters.org/

  • SmartAlec

    GlennBeckReview said:
    Question for Beck’s supporters: how often do you agree with anything that Keith Olbermann stands for?

    Olbermann stands for hate-mongering, race-baiting, and insulting those who don’t agree with his twisted progressive policies. Why would any Beck supporter agree with that??

    Now, call me a Beckerhead, tell me you’re smarter than I am, and link to your valuable website.

  • http://sharethisurlaboutglennbeck.com/ GlennBeckReview

    “GlennBeckReview said:”
    Question for Beck’s supporters: how often do you agree with anything that Keith Olbermann stands for?

    SmartAlec says:
    “Olbermann stands for hate-mongering, race-baiting, and insulting those who don’t agree with his twisted progressive policies. Why would any Beck supporter agree with that??”

    I don’t need to link to The Glenn Beck Review; you just conformed precisely what I wrote about about those like you who are misinformed by the self-contained, right-wing media sphere.

    For example, you think that KO “stands for hate-mongering.” I don’t see that. How ofter have you heard KO say, “I hate ____________?” YOu haven’t. How often have you heard Beck say, “I hate Woodrow Wilson?” It’s like a secret handshake you Beckerheads use.

    Next example: you claim that KO “stands for … race-baiting.” I don’t see that either, but Beck does it so often that I HAVE TO DEFEND HIM AGAINST CHARGES THAT HIS NAME IS SPELLED BECKKK. I have done that on the field-negro blog. Google it, you’ll find it. Tell me how you “think” that KO does race-baiting. With my biased assimilation, I can’t hear it any more than you can hear the many, many, many lies that Beck tells.

    Finally, you claim that KO “stands for … insulting those who don’t agree with” him. That’s true. Ever hear Beck call the President’s men “weasels?” He does, and I’d drop the link to prove it, but you’ve already established that you have a closed mind.

  • mully

    Holy shit. I actually agree with the lunatic for once. TSA have got this wrong big time.

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